Category Archives: WCMY News
Congressman having cards for veterans drive for St. Patrick's Day greetings
Cong. Adam Kinzinger is collecting cards for veterans again for St. Patrick's Day. The cards will go to residents of the veterans home in LaSalle and patients at the Danville and Hines veterans hospit...
Mar 8, 2021
Repairs needed at river bottom under Main St. bridge in Ottawa
It's time for repairs again under the Fox River Main St. bridge in Ottawa. City Engineer Tom Duttlinger says when the river floods, forces from the moving water scour out the river bottom around the b...
Mar 8, 2021
Ottawa borrowing money for water and sewer projects
Ottawa City Hall is borrowing $15 million in two bond issues. $5 million will be used for running a water main to a recently annexed area at Illinois 71 and Interstate 80. $10 million is for sewer sys...
Mar 8, 2021
Environmental grants available again from Illinois American Water
Illinois American Water is taking grant applications until March 29th for environmental projects in its service areas. Locally, those areas include Ransom and Streator. Neither has ever received such ...
Mar 7, 2021
Ottawa woman takes intense probation for drug deal
An Ottawa woman agrees to four years in an intense probation program. Twenty-one year old Claudia D. Smith pleaded guilty Friday to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Judge H. Chris Ryan sen...
Mar 6, 2021
Shorter name proposed for LaSalle County government department
LaSalle County Environmental Services and Land Use Department Director Brian Gift would like to shorten the department's name. He feels Land Use Department is enough. Gift told the County Board's Land...
Mar 6, 2021
Woman arrested after home owners report confronting burglars
Two people in Streator report finding and confronting burglars in their homes early Friday morning. Police arrested 28-year old Kjersten Minkler of Streator in the 300 block of W. Sumner St. after one...
Mar 5, 2021
One quarter of Illinois inmates with COVID are at Sheridan
The Illinois Department of Corrections says 195 inmates in its custody have the coronavirus. And about a quarter of them are at Sheridan Correctional Center. IDOC's information about the cases says 54...
Mar 5, 2021 Sheridan Correctional Center
Both people arrested after ten-hour hunt sentenced
A Streator woman is agreeing to four years on probation and to keep cooperating if prosecutors need help in another case. Fifty-one year old Nancy Newell pleaded guilty today to burglary and retail th...
Mar 5, 2021
Trials scheduled in LaSalle County murder cases
Trials were scheduled this morning for two men charged with different murders in LaSalle County. Twenty-five year old Kenneth Herbst of LaSalle is accused of smothering his infant son to death two yea...
Mar 5, 2021